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secretions therefore is certainly from the higher centres. But in a consideration of rage and anger etc. we find that the stimulation offered by the natural opponents leads to enormous activity. Whilst emotion as such cannot be explained on the lines of visceral theory yet the adrenal action in emotion plays a very important part. Neither the nervous system, nor yet the adrenal system but the processes of biological inheritance and suggestions from them play a huge part in the emotive life of each individual. These are called the vasanas of the citta; it is these that stimulate the cortical centres which allow them to express themselves and when these intrigues between the vasanas and the adrenal are cut off, all vitality floods the other systems and supplying the needed power for metabolic changes. The entire energy instead of being released into the circulatory system is drained into other paths of control and makes for the control of emotion.
Thus neither the glandular system which is in full command of the emotional and the metabolic activity of the human body, nor the neural system which is in full command of the sensory and motor activity as also the autonomic system and in fact radiates through the muscles and glands and controls the entire system, offers the complete solution of the problem of psychical life and consciousness and its expressions. It seems that all these systems which have differentiated themselves from the unicellular organism have developed an integral dynamic rhythm. They are whilst distinct mutually dependent and co-operative in function.
IV
Psychonic system and the Upanishad:
It is clear that the Upanishads offer something like the psychonic system called by them, the Sukshma Sarira. The Nadis belong to this body, so also the chakras, and it is Sukshma prana which flows through it, that connects radiantly the entire functions of the organism. It is also the Sukshma prana that connects the Sukshma body with the sthula or gross body at the corresponding places, for emotions with the adrenal and other glands and the solar plexus, for sensory functions with the brain and the sensory centres of the brain, for intellectual and highly specialized reactions with